How Did You Know? The Literary Edition

Herein Lizz shares some favorite quotes from assorted works of classic literature, and provides a hidden clue to kick off day four of the Mental Floss "How Did You Know?" trivia hunt.

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[rob200able]

In the stinking darkness under the barn, he raised his shaggy head. His yellow, stupid eyes gleamed. " I hunger ", he whispered. Henry Ellender.

[WeaponSamurai]

Mine is, Tell me I can't do it and watch as I prove you wrong.

[sassyseraph]

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Anna Karenina

And anything by William Blake.

[scargirl133]

"And for that moment I swear we were infinate"

The Perks of Being A Wallflower.

[patternsinchaos]

"To see the world in a grain of sand"

-William Blake (Not exactly literary I guess.)

[justtestingthething]

"everything is relative" (most probably from A.E.)

[eyt444]

"If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be, would be." -Willa Cather's "My Antonia"

[procyonblack2]

"And now," said the unkown, "farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been Heaven's substitute to recompense the good- now the God of Vengeance yeilds to me his power to punish the wicked!"

-The Count of Monte Christo

[trillspots]

"A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul."

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " - Thoreau

[Jhadriael]

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -Thorin Oakenshield "The Hobbit"